Affiliate Marketing Formula

As you probably read in my last email, I spend last weekend at The Internet Marketing Main Event in Baltimore. I missed my wife and my daughter like crazy, but also had some life-changing experiences.

When was the last time that you had a life-changing experience?

My recent ones go as follows:

July 13th 2006 – My daughter was born
April 3rd 2006 – Moved out of my home-office
April 4th 2005 – Married the love of my life
March 11th 2002 – Met the love of my life in a cab (Story for another time)

The list does go on, but I am sure that you realize that they don’t happen very often.

Many of the positives from the weekend just gone were the people that I met and the clarity that I gained in how to go forward with my business. It also gave me  great insight into how wonderful and REAL subscribers on my list are. I never got bored of meeting them and finding out what they are doing.

On the very first morning, I was sitting drinking a Starbucks desperately trying to justify to myself why I was up at 7.30am having been jet-lagged most of the night. Somebody sat down opposite me and the conversation went something like this:

- Are you Ben Shaffer?
- Yes.
- How about I give you $97 and you give me $1.

Bam!! Sounded like a good deal. Infact, the deal sounded way too good, so I sat there with a puzzled face until he said:

- Alright, how about you give me 1 Cent and I will give you a dollar?
- Sure

I found a 1 Cent piece (which apparently costs more to make than they are worth) in my pocket and handed it to him. He then gave me a one dollar bill. This conference seemed like it was looking up!

So we got talking. It turns out that his name is Matthew Glanfield and that he is one of the most brilliant up-and-coming marketers online. I obviously asked him about the previous exercise and he explained as follows.

To give me $97 in exchange for $1 seemed too good to be true in my mind. I didn’t know this guy from Adam and therefore he did not have any credibility with me. Although $1 is not a lot of money, I did not want to risk even $1 to receive nothing in return. However, with the 1 Cent, the intrigue in itself was worth 1 Cent and 1 Cent is worth the risk. Even had he given me a fake one dollar bill in return, it still would have been worth it to me. I learnt a big lesson from this about credibility and reciprocity.

Matthew is someone who reads my newsletters and had been enthusiastic to meet with me. As the old mafia saying goes, he made me an offer that I couldn’t refuse by giving me a dollar. And through that he was also able to prove his deep insight by teaching me a lesson. By handing me a one dollar bill which was real and not fake, he subconsciously also revealed his credibility to me.

Matthew has a website where he is covering two seriously important skills for you if you are marketing on the internet in almost any niche. In fact, I am quite blown away by some of the strategies and insights that he is prepared to give to you. The free version is great, but if you take advantage of the one-time-only offer then the information that you will receive is crazily excellent. At $97 it is a steal, although I do understand that is still a lot of money if you are unsure of the value that you are getting. I am therefore going to show you a fool-proof way to access the back-end information for just $1 and then only pay the rest of the money if you are 110% satisfied.

Please make sure that you follow these instructions exactly:

1. Visit: http://www.discoveraffiliatemarketing.com
2. Listen to the audio which should start automatically
3. Scroll down to the yellow sign-up box and enter your name and email address
4. Check your email box and confirm your email by clicking on the link in the email that you receive
5. Log in to your account using the details which you will receive in the next email
6. Read the page about the offer which Matthew is giving you about your Platinum Upgrade.
7. HOWEVER instead of saying yes, click on the no link which is the last link on the page
8. Click on the link which says “Yes! I want to upgrade for only $1!”
9. Post a comment on my blog at http://www.clarifywithben.com/blog telling me that you have done this and your number 1 life-changing moment together with the date

I am looking forward to seeing you on the inside.

Best Wishes,

Ben Shaffer

PS. Another fact that you should be aware of, is that Matthew Glanfield won the Stevie Award for the best marketer in 2006. A remarkable achievement.
PPS. I have not asked Matthew if it is alright to show you the secret method of seeing the information for $1, but I am hoping that he will not mind as he is someone who gains satisfaction just from imparting information. However, it is worth taking advantage of this offer in case he is not so keen to give away the information for virtually free!